This was my first visit to Broughton Park’s impressive new ground, and inside two minutes I had seen Sedgley score a try. A lovely driving maul by the pack had the home side back-pedalling and, when the ball was released to the backs, centre Sion O’Hare burst through some weak tackles to score.

A ten-minute period during which the referee laid down his requirements at scrum and in the tackle area produced not much, but benefited the rest of the game, and the Sedgley tries began to come. O’Hare himself had four of them before half-time.

Right winger Henry Monsell scored the second from an attacking scrum. The Broughton Park scrum-half was then sent to the sin-bin, which was not what his outgunned pack required, and O’Hare bustled over for two in that 10-minute period.

Broughton Park reduced the arrears with a penalty goal but Sedgley went into half-time at 29-3 when O’Hare scored from a tap-penalty.

Sedgley now had a strong wind at their backs but Broughton Park came out for the second half with a more positive attitude, closing down space and tackling much better in midfield. Denied room and time, Sedgley’s handling now looked suspect; this was not one of the team’s more fluent displays, to be honest.

Twenty minutes were required for that next try, scored from short range by Leyton Taylor. Matt Lamprey had been fairly quiet, for him, but he got the next one, before captain O’Hare scored his fifth – and his team’s eighth - as darkness fell.

Players to catch my eye this week – apart from the obvious one – were locks Andrew Clegg and Matt Smith; prop Leyton Taylor, who got through an impressive amount of work in the loose (and someone was certainly pushing in those scrums!); scrum-half Danny Harrison, who is improving with every match; and Phil Largan at full-back on his return from injury, looking pretty sharp.

Last week the team played in the 1st Round of the Halbro Cup, defeating Preston Grasshoppers’ 4th XV 37-7, away. Some experienced old heads gave our boys a tougher game than they have been experiencing in the league.

We’ve got another away match in Round Two, at New Brighton on December 8th. (Their 2nd XV)

Before that, in the league, it’s Waterloo at Park Lane on December 1st, an important top-of-the-table clash.